kern/91720: pxeboot always tries to do an rpc call to an nfs-server

[Ceri Davies]

The following reply was made to PR kern/91720; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net>
To: Ruben Kerkhof <ruben.kerkhof at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/91720: pxeboot always tries to do an rpc call to an nfs-server
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:13:26 +0000

 On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:12:30PM +0100, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
 > On 1/20/06, Ceri Davies <ceri at submonkey.net> wrote:
 > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:29:08PM +0100, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
 > > > I tested the NFS path as well, nothing broke :-)
 > >
 > > Ah, good man!  Will pass it on to my mentor for review then.
 > >
 > > Thanks very much for your help!
 > >
 > > Ceri
 > >
 > 
 > One thing I just thought about is that I tested NFS with
 > -DLOADER_NFS_SUPPORT. I haven't tested it with -DTFTP_SUPPORT, so I
 > don't know how diskless clients behave in that case.
 
 OK, no problem.  I suspect that they break, or at least
 boot.nfsroot.nfshandle won't get set and there is code in the client
 specifically for the diskless case that expects to find something in
 there.
 
 I'll try to set up a test environment and see.  Thanks for the warning.
 
 Ceri
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